Building Radical Islam in America: Part 1

To understand how Radical Islam can immigrate into the U.S. without a man crossing the border, lets go back…way back.

In 1974, in the middle of a Michael Parkinson interview, Muhammad Ali decided to dispense with all the safe conventions of chat show etiquette.

“You say I got white friends,” he declared, “I say they are associates.”

When his host dared to suggest that the boxer’s trainer of 14 years standing, Angelo Dundee, might be a friend, Ali insisted, gruffly: “He is an associate.”

Within seconds, with Parkinson failing to get a word in edgeways, Ali had provided a detailed account of his reasoning.

“Elijah Muhammad,” he told the TV viewers “Is the one who preached that the white man of America, number one, is the Devil!”

The whites of America, said Ali, had “lynched us, raped us, castrated us, tarred and feathered us … Elijah Muhammad has been preaching that the white man of America – God taught him – is the blue-eyed, blond-headed Devil! No good in him, no justice, he’s gonna be destroyed!

“The white man is the Devil. We do believe that. We know it!”

In one explosive, virtuoso performance, Ali had turned “this little TV show” into an exposition of his beliefs, and the beliefs of “two million five hundred” other followers of the radically – to some white minds, dangerously – black separatist religious movement, the Nation of Islam.

At the height of his tirade, Ali drew slightly nervous laughter from the studio when he told Parkinson “You are too small mentally to tackle me on anything I represent.”

Maybe, though, it was just a judicious sense of self-preservation that prevented Parky from asking arguably the greatest boxer the world has seen to explain how “God” had taught Elijah Muhammad about white Americans being blue-eyed devils.

To explain that,

Ali would have had to go back to the 1930s and an obscure door-to-door salesman in Detroit. Wallace D Fard, the founder of the Nation of Islam, appears to have arrived in Detroit in 1930 and began by selling silks to poor black families in the city. His wares, he told his customers, came from “their home country”.

Enough of them were intrigued for Fard to get a following and to be able to switch from the Bible to the Koran as the basis for his preaching.

“My name is W.D. Fard and I came from the Holy City of Mecca,” he supposedly told one early gathering. “More about myself I will not tell you yet, for the time has not yet come.”

It seems that time had still not come when in 1934, Fard mysteriously disappeared. The FBI took the opportunity to creatively fill in the gaps. It told one newspaper that Fard had in fact been a white man from New Zealand, and another that he had been a Turkish-born Nazi agent who had worked for the Germans during World War Two.

Not surprisingly the Nation of Islam has developed a different narrative. Elijah Muhammad, the man who emerged as leader of the Nation of Islam after the “departure” of its founder, came to identify Fard with Allah.

In this scheme of things, Elijah Muhammad, born Elijah Poole, the son of former slaves in Georgia, became the “Last Messenger of Allah.”

In a 1996 article that is now on the Nation of Islam’s website, Elijah Muhammad’s wife Tynetta wrote that her husband was chosen as the “Divine Representative” who would preach that the “Master’s” mission had been: “to resurrect His lost and found people, who were identified as the original members of the Tribe of Shabazz from the Lost Nation of Asia. The lost people of the original nation of African descent, were captured, exploited, and dehumanized to serve as servitude slaves of America for over three centuries. “

Elijah Muhammad told the faithful that “the Blackman, the Original Man, [from whom] came all brown, yellow, red and white people,” was to overcome the oppression of whites – the “blue-eyed devils” – and form his own nation.

To some, including the black liberal Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the Nation of Islam was “run by a bunch of thugs organised from prisons and jails.”

Others, like the black Conservative commentator George Shuyler may have dismissed Elijah Muhammad as “a rogue and a charlatan” but conceded, in the ugly language of 1950s America, “When anybody can get tens of thousands of Negroes to practice economic solidarity, respect their women, alter their atrocious diet, give up liquor, stop crime, juvenile delinquency and adultery, he is doing more for Negroes’ welfare than any current Negro leader I know.”

In 1959, the same year that Shuyler was writing, a teenage boxer called Cassisus Clay first heard of the Nation of Islam. He tentatively attended his first meeting in 1961.

And in 1964, the morning after the 22-year-old 7-1 underdog stunned the world by defeating Sonny Liston to become heavyweight champion of the world, he announced that he had renounced his “slave name” Cassius Clay and joined the Nation of Islam.

Beside him as he made his announcement was the man who had become his mentor – Malcolm X.

Malcolm Little had entered a Charlestown jail in 1946 as a hustler convicted of burglary. He had been paroled in 1952 as Malcolm X, a self-educated convert who had ditched his slave name and was burning to go to the Nation of Islam’s Chicago headquarters and meet Elijah Muhammad.

By the time he met Ali in 1962, Malcolm X was Elijah Muhammad’s chief spokesman and most prominent apostle.

His belief that violence was sometimes necessary, and the Nation of Islam’s insistence that followers remain separate from and avoid participation in American politics meant that not every civil rights leader welcomed Muhammad Ali joining the movement.

“When Cassius Clay joined the Black Muslims [The Nation of Islam],” said Martin Luther King, “he became a champion of racial segregation, and that is what we are fighting against.”

Malcom X separated from NOI following a trip to the MECCA ans seeing that white Muslims were not the Devil.

NOI members assassinated Malcom X for his rif from the Nation of Islam.

In 1993, Louis Farrakhan, by then the Nation of Islam’s new leader, was seen by some to acknowledge the possibility that the movement might somehow have been linked to Malcolm X’s murder when he told a crowd of supporters: “We don’t give a damn about no white man law if you attack what we love. And frankly, it ain’t none of your business.

“Did you teach Malcolm? Did you put Malcolm out before the world? Was Malcolm your traitor or ours? And if we dealt with him like a nation deals with a traitor, what the hell business is it of yours?”

By then, though, Ali’s own attitudes to the “blue-eyed devils” had long since mellowed. In 1975 he converted to the far more conventional Sunni Islam – possibly prompted by the fact that Elijah Muhammad had died of congestive heart failure in the same year, and his son Warith Deen Mohammad had moved the Nation of Islam towards inclusion in the mainstream Islamic community.

He rebranded the movement the “World Community of Islam in the West”, only for Farrakhan to break away in 1978 and create a new Nation of Islam, which he claimed remained true to the teachings of “the Master” [Fard].

“The Nation of Islam taught that white people were devils,” he wrote in 2004.

Building the Nation

Getting an audience to listen to his preaching proved to be challenging. How, Where, and Who should he turn his attentions to questioned Farrakhan.

The answer came swiftly.

Following the failed assassination attempt on resident Reagan, V.P. George H.W. Bush, The former Director of the CIA, was put in charge of International Affairs and Intelligence operations. President Reagan became a talking Head, nothing more.

Under Bush’s guidance the National Reconnaissance Office was assigned the task of overseeing the operations in Nicaragua. Lt. Col Oliver North was put in charge of the operations.

Under North’s leadership, the CIA began pushing Cocaine into the inner cities, targeting the black communities using facilities in Arkansas and other states to facilitate the shipments. The Governor of Arkansas at the time was William Jefferson Clinton. Clinton became a very close associate of then V.P Bush.

Remember now, the Cocaine was being produced in Nicaragua under the auspices of a regime change. The ousted Somosa rebels renamed Nicaraguan Contras, were being trained by U.S. Military, DIA, and CIA trainers.

In 1990 then President George H.W. Bush announced plans for a New World Order. Understanding that this was not a overnight objective, plans were drawn to achieve this goal.

Fast Forward to the next President of the U.S. William Jefferson Clinton

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act,

A true paradox lies at the heart of the Clinton legacy. Before Black Lives Matter there was the Clinton policy that Black Lives Don’t Matter. Or perhaps this was part of a plan…A long standing plan to introduce change in America.

Both Hillary and Bill continue to enjoy enormous popularity among African Americans despite the devastating legacy of a presidency that resulted in the impoverishment and incarceration of hundreds of thousands of poor and working-class black people. Most shockingly, the total numbers of state and federal inmates grew more rapidly under Bill Clinton than under any other president, including the notorious Republican drug warriors Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. This fact alone should at least make one pause before granting unquestioning fealty to Hillary, but of course there are many others, including her entry into electoral politics through the 1964 Goldwater campaign, resolute support for the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, race-baiting tactics in the 2008 election, and close ties to lobbyists for the private prison industry. Nevertheless, until the encounter with BLM protestors in August 2015, few publicly called out the Clintons’ shared culpability for our contemporary prison nation that subjects a third of African American men to a form of correctional control in their lifetime.

The Target was acquired – Black Prisoners

Prisons have become recruitment and training centers for future jihadists. It is an escalating crisis that is taking a toll, as Americans are murdered by those who convert to Islam in prison.

The rising influence of Islam in our prisons is due to a disproportionately high number of Muslims who are incarcerated, skyrocketing conversion rates, powerful Muslim gangs, the proliferation of Muslim chaplains, an uninformed prison power structure, and the outside influence of Islamic terror organizations.

Oh, and the fact that the FBI isn’t allowed to say “Islam,” “jihad,” or target the very people who are trying to kill us as part of America’s dangerous ride on the Dhimmi bandwagon.

Muslim incarceration rate

Muslims comprise 15% of the prison population. This number far exceeds the percentage of Muslims in the general population. It is eighteen times greater, to be exact. Put another way, there are about 2.4 million Muslims in the United States and 350,000 of them are in jail. That means more than 12%* of Muslims in America are incarcerated.

Conversion rates

Reports on the number of prisoners who convert to Islam vary and are framed in different ways. Some sources estimate 40,000 prisoners per year convert. Others put the numbers closer to 135,000 per year. Some posit that 80% of inmates who “find faith while in prison convert to Islam.”

One thing is for sure: The majority of those who convert to Islam in prison are black, with as many as one in three black prisoners converting. (The number of Hispanic prisoners converting to Islam is also on the rise.)

These numbers are staggering. And the implications are serious, as will be addressed further on in this article.

There are numerous reasons why conversions to Islam are skyrocketing in our jails.

Many prisoners feel angry, disenfranchised, and yes, even victimized and wronged by society. Many harbor a deep disdain for America. They are, therefore, prime targets for recruitment to a religious ideology that shares many of these same attitudes.

In addition, Islamic teachings are often framed as a noble code of ethics to live by. Case in point: The Nation of Islam is the largest prison ministry. It appeals to black males as it demonizes Christianity as a religion for the white oppressor while framing Islam as a “more desirable moral system for disenfranchised blacks.”

Never mind that Islam has enslaved black Africans for over a thousand years and continues to do so, or that a holy book that preaches hate can hardly be considered a “desirable moral system.”

In addition to those drawn to the ideology, others may be forced to convert through intimidation, while still others are motivated to convert for the perks, such as time off to attend group prayer and higher quality/halal food, among other benefits. As David Lawrence wrote for American Thinker:

The real reason I was attending Moslem religious classes in jail was to get out of my landscaping job. The landscaping department let you go at noon if you attended services….

Prison perks for Muslims are a form of creeping Sharia as Muslims assert superiority in every corner of our society. Including prison.

Muslims assert superiority via lawsuits (often using the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to argue their case) as well as brazen intimidation. Here’s one among countless examples of how superiority is established using intimidation as well as legal tactics: Last year, members of a Muslim prison gang took over a meditation room by leaving Islamic paraphernalia in the space until prisoners of other faiths felt so uncomfortable they stopped using the room. That same year the ACLU sued the prison because it only allowed group prayer three times a day instead of five. Although prison officials testified that “allowing group prayer five times a day would pose a security risk” and that “inmates have used religion as a cover for gang-like activity,” the judge dismissed their testimony as “insubstantial.”

Meanwhile, “gang-like activity” is an understatement. (How gangs are even allowed to take root in prison is another story.)

Muslim prison gangs wield enormous power as they prey upon prisoners who are filled with hate and resentment towards the United States. In fact, feigning these negative feelings toward America enabled a Christian prisoner named Zorn to infiltrate Muslim prison gangs. In the documentarySleeping Giant: Islam Behind the Wall, Zorn revealed a shocking portrait of Muslim influence and control in our prisons. And beyond.

He reported that Muslim gang members readily use extreme violence, including deadly force, as they operate “almost like a military structure,” controlling “the jobs, the drugs, the guards. Everything.”

He also saw first-hand how Islam was proselytized – whether through guerilla combat training taught out in the open or through books smuggled in that taught radical ideas. But books need not be smuggled in as Robert Spencer notes that prison libraries are full of jihadist literature that prison authorities don’t understand due to lack of training. The FBI has also confirmed that media (in the form of printed materials as well as videos) are a “significant factor in prison radicalization.”

Muslim prison gangs and Islamic literature are two among several factors that are turning our prisons into jihadist training centers. The Northeast Intelligence Network provides additional context for the growing problem of Islamic influence in our prisons:

The high rate of conversion of inmates to Islam, and specifically the Wahhabi brand of Islam is no accident…. The influx of Wahhabi chaplains into our prison system and military is no accident. The entire process is by design….

The indoctrination of American inmates is a well known strategy detailed in al Qaeda training manuals. The manuals state that non-Muslim prisoners should be eyed for conversion to “religious jihad” as they are likely to be “disenchanted with their country’s policies” and feel disenfranchised from society. They also can make perfect operational assets for Islamic terrorist groups because of their ability to more easily blend into American society.”

As noted in the excerpt above, Muslim prison chaplains and the influence of outside terror organizations enables Islam to flourish in prisons across America.

Muslim chaplains and the influence of outside terror groups

Per an FBI report (prior to the insane days when the FBI was not allowed to utter the world “Islam”):

Particularly for Muslim converts, but also for those born into Islam, an extremist imam can strongly influence individual belief systems by speaking from a position of authority on religious issues. Extremist imams have the potential to influence vulnerable followers at various locations of opportunity; can spot and assess individuals who respond to their messages; and can potentially guide them into increasingly extremist circles.

How is it possible that imams preaching jihad have infiltrated the prison system?

… For years, the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Ashburn, V.A. provided funding, training and literature to correctional institution imams, under the direction of Dr. Taha Jabir Alalwani.

He was also at times the head of the Fiqh Council of North America.Before coming to the United States, Alalwani was a professor at a state-run Wahhabi university in Saudi Arabia. He worked closely with Warith Deen Umar to see that literature, clergy and visiting speakers adhered to a strict Wahhabi/Salafist form of Islam.

Umar was a former New York State inmate who went on to become the head of Islamic Affairs for the New York State Prison’s Department of Ministerial Services. He was also the founder and head of the National Association of Muslim Chaplains, the chief certifying body of Islamic clergy in the prison system. He was later caught justifying the 9/11 attacks and terrorism to prison inmates.

… the Muslim American Society, have dedicated prison projects in which they specifically collect money to send religious dogma to prisoners and underwrite volunteer chaplains. This effort is aimed not only at existing Muslims convicts but to convert non-Muslim inmates.

Stephen Schwartz, author of The Two Faces of Islam, sums up this calamity:

Radical Muslim chaplains, trained in a foreign ideology, certified in foreign-financed schools and acting in coordination to impose an extremist agenda have gained a monopoly over Islamic religious activities in American state, federal, and city prisons and jails.

Saudi Arabia targets our prisons for converts and jihadist recruits by investing significant amounts of money into “prison outreach” programs. They also supply prisons with Korans.

Lots and lots of Korans.

But Korans aren’t the only dangerous reading material prisoners can access. Muslim Brotherhood front groups have filled prison libraries with books by ancient Islamic scholars who have inspired modern day jihadists. As noted earlier in the article, prison authorities have no idea what these books preach.

One, in my opinion, is the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) enacted by Congress in 2000 and its predecessor, the Religion Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993. In essence, these allow for literature for various forms of religion practiced in correctional settings, including Wahhabism.

Note that this is the same law cited by John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, in his successful lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons to relieve certain security conditions of confinement imposed on him.

The second part of the problem is the lack of understanding by some correctional officials as to the radical theology of certain forms of Islam. Without that knowledge, they lack the ability to discern between literature calling for a holy life and literature calling for jihad against infidels.

As to the latter point, ignorance is no excuse. These are perilous times and anyone who’s been paying attention should be aware that the West, and indeed all of civilization, is under siege from Islamic jihad. The list of jihadists who converted while in prison is ever-growing. (See here, here, here, here, here, here, here,here, and here for a partial list.)

Prison power structure, ignorance, and dhimmitude

As in various arenas in our society, Muslims exploit the law and use other religions as a benchmark for what they claim they deserve, while Muslim Brotherhood front groups and the ACLU apply pressure for increasing entitlements. Couple that with ignorance and dhimmitude on the part of the prison power structure and you have a dangerous situation spiraling out of control.

This is as good an example as any, where ignorance and moral equivalence meet, as Corrections Onereports:

Sgt. Juan Martinez, who runs the Religious and Volunteer Services unit, said the Friday services were limited because there were not enough volunteer imams to lead them. Recently, the rules changed, allowing an inmate to lead prayers under the supervision of a staff member or a volunteer chaplain from another faith.

“It’s an ongoing education,” Martinez said of working with inmates from different religions. “Once you keep doing it, it becomes normal.” (snip)

In a statement, the Sheriff’s Department said it is committed to treating Muslims the same as those of other faiths.

“It is the Department’s hope that inmates will build a strong foundation based on positive values and beliefs through their religious faith that can lead to a new life path,” the statement said. “To that end, our goal is to ensure that inmates of all faiths can exercise their religious rights and that they are given the same opportunity to practice their faith.”

Until people understand that Islam is not like other religions, they will be forever lost and easily manipulated. And manipulated they are. As prison Sharia creeps and creeps and creeps.

It would be bad enough if this were a problem contained within the prison walls. But it’s not. It’s a problem that impacts all of our lives as increasing numbers of prisoners embrace jihad and plan and/or commit terrorist acts once they are released.

Life after prison for jihadists in training

As Christian Action Networkreports, when Muslim prisoners are released they are “persuaded to make immediate contact with Islamic communities and mosques on the outside, where they can continue their Islamic jihad training … These training camps have been identified as Muslims of the Americas (MOA) compounds….”

Early this year, The Clarion Projectreported on a collaborative investigation with ACT! For America Houstonthat revealed a jihadist training compound in Texas that is part of a network of 22 such enclaves run by MOA.

A 2007 FBI record states that MOA members have been involved in at least 10 murders, one disappearance, three firebombings, one attempted firebombing, two explosive bombings and one attempted bombing. It states:

“The documented propensity for violence by this organization supports the belief the leadership of the MOA extols membership to pursue a policy of jihad or holy war against individuals or groups it considers enemies of Islam, which includes the U.S. Government. Members of the MOA are encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive religious and military/terrorist training from Sheikh Gilani.”

The document also says that, “The MOA is now an autonomous organization which possesses an infrastructure capable of planning and mounting terrorist campaigns overseas and within the U.S.”

Last Resistance also addresses these jihadist training compounds in the United States:

Entire communities of former prisoners are popping up in the United States; the most well-known being Islamberg in New York. At the foot of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York lies a 70 acre Muslim compound called Islamberg. For almost two decades Islamberg and its occupants went un-noticed by the world. After 911, concerns began to grow over the compounds proximity to a huge reservoir system that provides New York City with most of its drinking water….

One can begin to see the deadly path from criminal behavior to prison to Islam to release back into society where violent indoctrination is reinforced in jihadist training compounds. The end result: More soldiers for Islam’s holy war – a war being waged against us every moment of every day.

Congressional hearings

The problem of Islamic recruitment and jihadist training in prisons became so serious that Congress heldhearings on the matter. Expertwitnesses testified to the explosive mix of convicted felons with Islamic ideology as a perfect storm for the creation of future jihadists. Others testified that prison walls are “porous,” with exchange of information readily reaching from outside in, and inside out.

The most effective terrorists are team players, who play different positions on a radicalized field. Our overcrowded prisons provide an opportunity for a deep bench. Even more importantly, para- radicalization and recruitment occurs in prison. In this exploitative environment, inmates, visitors and even prison employees can be unwitting players who can be cajoled, bribed or coerced into transmitting messages and materials without being aware of their real purpose.

It is not enough to understand terrorism in prison by learning only about inmates. One must also have an understanding of those who visit and volunteer in prisons. Studies have suggested that terrorist recruitment methods are not always expected to yield a high number of recruits. Even if the radical message resonates with only a few inmates, they could then be targeted for more intense one on one instruction. The impact and destructive potential of a prison- directed terrorist cell is enormous.

Taken in full, the hearings revealed a disturbing reality that is festering in our prisons.

The trouble with these hearings, as with so many hearings, is that after vital information is imparted, little-to-nothing is done about what was learned. Should our nation fall, there will be a pile of paper with Congressional letterhead documenting every detail of that which was the source of our undoing.

Couple this sad state of affairs with the FBI purging all training materials of any reference to Islam or jihad and one is reminded that we are willfully undermining our ability to protect and defend ourselves. The most current materials from the FBI on the subject of Islam in our prisons are from 2006. In fact, the FBI’s 2013 National Domestic Threat Assessment made no mention of Islam at all. That’s pathetic. Worse than pathetic. It’s downright dangerous.

So here we are with Congressional hearings behind us and not much of anything to show for it. A neutered FBI. (Not to mention a president who is an Islamophile.) And an enemy that continues on the march – plotting, planning, and attacking from all directions. Including from within the porous fortress that is the United States prison system.

We will be paying a heavy price for a long time to come if nothing is done to address this urgent and growing problem.

Regime Change in America.
Election of Barrack Hussein Obama

Deliberate whitewash of the training programs in prison

Here is a recent house hearing designed to address the terrorism issue, however for some odd reason, they failed to address the NOI traning camps known as Prisons.

To address the scope of radicalization, and assess what steps can be taken to mitigate the rise of terror via lone wolf attacks and organized terrorist plots.

BACKGROUND:

There have been numerous terrorist atrocities conducted by radicalized individuals in cities such as San Bernardino, Orlando, Brussels, Nice, Ankara, and Istanbul, to name a few.

Such attacks, committed by radicalized Islamic extremists targeting unsuspecting populations in vulnerable public places, appear to be the new template for terrorist activity. The randomness of these attacks makes it difficult for law enforcement to protect the public.

Technological advances have enabled vulnerable Homegrown Violent Extremists, both foreign fighters and lone wolves, to be recruited, radicalized, and mobilized for terror attacks via social media in mere days.

Obama Banned Pork from Prisons – Yet Another Islamic Accommodation

No more pork in federal prisons

According to a Washington Post article, the Bureau of Prisons, which operates facilities for over 200,000 prisoners has decided to eliminate pork from their menus. The Bureau of Prisons cited higher prices and prisoner choices to the move.

But this is hogwash (sorry for the pun…) according to Dave Warner of the National Pork Producers Council, who claims pork is much less expensive than beef and said, “I find it hard to believe that a survey would have found a majority of any population saying, ‘No thanks, I don’t want any bacon.’”

Non-pork options have long been available to observant Jews and Muslims, who do not eat pork products for religious reasons.

But let’s look at the reality of the prison system as it is. According to a Daily Caller report, one out of three African Americans in prison have converted to Islam. The Huffington Post reported 35,000 to 40,000 inmates convert to Islam each year, and the total prison population is 15% Muslim.

While its true, a lot of religious conversions happen in prisons (whether real, temporary or just for show), a Pew research study showed 57% of Prison Chaplains rated extremism in Muslim inmates to be common. By contrast, with Catholicism, only 8% rated it that way.

In the meantime the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “welcomes” the move.

Author’s Note: This may seem a trivial matter, but Mr. Warner’s comments ring true. The premises from the Bureau of Prisons are obviously crap. Americans consume over 25 billion pounds of pork per year, somebody must like it…

I believe this is indeed an accommodation to Islam by the Obama administration, and this illustrates how our prison system has become a recruiting ground for radical Islam. There is nothing peaceful about Islam in a prison.

Prisons are a logical place to find disaffected Americans, it would not surprise me to find other Islamic recruiting influences and organized outside help for those influences.

Bottom line, Islam has changed yet another small segment of our society for its own purposes.

4 thoughts on “Building Radical Islam in America: Part 1”

Muhammad Ali .. “decided to dispense with all the safe conventions of chat show etiquette”
Muhammad Ali was always & deliberately controversial & provocative & he made the show.
He went on & on about people of different ethnic origins not being compatible & only mellowed towards the end when he was ill.
Every presenter wishes that their guest is unique & a showman ..
Oliver Reed came crashing through the back wall of the stage drunk as a skunk & sipping from a large jug filled with Vodka & orange & did a fantastic interview.

I recall when Ali fought, I think it was Foreman, “Rumble in the Jungle”. On his return to the US he was asked about Africa,too which he replied “I’m glad my ancestors got om that ship”. Not something any of the Irish slaves taken to the Caribbean and the Americas as 10 and 12 year olds. https://www.amazon.com/They-Were-White-Slaves-Enslavement/dp/0929903056

Here is part of a comment from Amazon
” Islam kidnapped, castrated and murdered 150 million African slaves. African slaves were brought to America while it was a British colony and that it was white Christian American males that freed the offspring of America’s 700,000 African slaves.”
How many African freed slaves then owned and abused white slaves?
Who bought the slaves to the Americas? Who captured them in Africa and sold them onto the ships? I can assure you neither were my ancestors.
Do any of the Abrahamic religions condemn slavery in their texts?
Do they condone and encourage slavery?

I only mention this because I wonder why the author makes such references as the “blue-eyed devils” and “slave name”.